ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,044, issued on July 21, was assigned to KOLON INDUSTRIES INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Humidifier for fuel cell" was invented by Jung Kun Her (Seoul, South Korea), Woong Jeon Ahn (Seoul, South Korea) and Do Woo Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a humidifier for a fuel cell, comprising: a humidifying module for humidifying dry gas supplied from the outside, by using wet gas discharged from a fuel cell stack; a first cap coupled to one end of the humidifying module; and a second cap coupled to the other end of the humidifying module, in which the humidifier comprises a first packing m...